this looks interesting...

Certainly a cheap alternative for a budget PC, however, one could buy a P4 and yield better results for only an extra few bucks.
 
well money for me is so tight i dont know what it looks like. but i bought a celeron d 330 the same one in the article for 25 dollars plus shipping on ebay and i just bought an abit vt7 motherboard on one of these forums for 28 dollars plus shipping. so altogether not too bad. i have cheap pc2100 ram three 512 sticks of it and a cheap 430 watt power supply that handles sata. so we are talking cheap as heck. 15 dollar crt monitor from salvation army thrift store 30 dollar case that was cheap on all aspects but that i have frankenstiened so it works well enough. not pretty by any means. got a 120 gig hard drive from a burned up emachines that only runs at 5400. if ever there was a frankenstien its my puter.
 
awhile back i didnt even have a case. i just laid out the motherboard and bits on a table beside my monitor and plugged them all in with a switch i got from a scrapped out broken case.
 
A while back I didn't have an option to even buy a junk computer, they didn't exist!

We did have black and white TV though with 3 channels. Luckily I lived in the big city! :)
 
i guess i always figured it wasnt throwing money at something that made someone a puter geek. i sort of figured it was more using whatever came to hand and tweaking it until it performed better than it was intended to. seems as though now days its all about buying the latest and greatest stuff rather than figureing out how to make something that doesnt perform well perform better than it should be able to.
 
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